Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames Affecting mozilla package, versions [,27.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.62% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377872
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Feb 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Feb 2014

CVE-2014-1483  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1021  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 27.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames. Mozilla Firefox before 27.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.24 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information by using an IFRAME element in conjunction with certain timing measurements involving the document.caretPositionFromPoint and document.elementFromPoint functions.

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